RBC Community Innovation Bootcamp

As an RBC Community Innovation BootCamp participant, the badge earner learned and applied innovation principles to discover underlying causes to the client's organizational challenges. Through a series of exercises, the badge earner conceptualized, developed, and pitched recommendations to solve these issues thereby contributing positively to the organization's social impact.

Skills Learned

Influencing Skills | Business Impact |Community Impact | Empathy | Pitching | Iterating | Brainstorming | Discovery | Rapid Prototyping | Solution Validation | Teamwork | Managing Ambiguity | Collaborative Innovation | Decision Making | Adaptation | Presentation Skills

Earning Criteria

• Full participation as a team member in RBC Community Innovation Bootcamp
• Work with incomplete information by developing assumptions and hypotheses in developing a feasible solution
• Practiced empathy to understand the client's organizational complexities as well as the end user's needs
• Integrate feedback from client organization to further refine the proposed solution - Work as a team under time constraints to develop solutions for the client
• Demonstrate integration of skills to develop impactful, achievable solutions for the client organization
• Develop a pitch deck and present to a panel of judges